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GENESEE FARMER. 



Feb. 



To Competitors for our Premiums. 



In accordance with our promise, we give below the mimes 

 of about fifty persons who are, thus far, the most successful 

 competitors fur the premiums olilered for subscribers. The 

 names are given in proper order, beginning with the name 

 of the person who has obtained the highest number. The 

 list was taken froia our books on the 25th of January. We 

 presume we shall be obliged lo make several changes in it 

 next month, as many whose names are not given have sent 

 us very respectable lists, and are continuing their exertions. 



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VVm. Lyman, 

 J. H. Stanley, 

 Moses Eames, 

 H. Frisbie, 

 F. J. Eastman, 

 E. C. Bliss, 

 Laton Runyan, 

 H. C. Kimberly, 

 Erastus Hurd, 



C. H. Carter, 

 J. Swain, 

 I. K. Trembly, 

 Dr. O. Reynolds, 



D. A. Ogden, 1 

 I. H. Gould, I 



E. W. Lawrence, ) 



L. D. Smith, I 



E. S. Bartholomew, J 



K. Sears, 



J. B. Lowell, 



D. D. Cole, 



J. A. Carpenter, 



C. Nye, I . 



B. Spaulding, S 



tp' The premium offered for the highest number of sub- 

 scribers previous to the 1st of January, ($5 in Ag. Books,) 

 was obtained by Wm. Lyman, Esq., of Leicester, Living- 

 ston county, IN. Y. 



The Genesee Farmer. — We have received the December num- 

 ber of this periodical, which closes its eighth volume, and have 

 perused its contents with pleasuse. It is gratifying to learn that 

 its publisher is receiving that support which his untiring efforts 

 to make it of higb practical value to the American farmer should 

 secure for him. It has now a circulation of fifteen thousand. 

 If its subscripton list amounted to more than three times that 

 number, the fact would afford greater satisfaction, as evincing a 

 growing disposition on the pan of our farmers to treat Agricul- 

 ture as a science, to keep up with the discoveries and improve- 

 ments of the day, and avail themselves of the great benefits 

 which are derived from the adaptation of chemistry to Agricultu- 

 ral purposes. — Buffalo Courier. 



B. & G. M. Copeland, 

 Wm. Chamberlain, 

 Reeve Corwin, > . 

 Jas. Perkins, \ "^• 

 W. T. Hastings,-) 

 Thomas Riddle, ! .■ 

 E. M. Foot, >»'^- 



J. S. Squires, J 

 D. M. Smith, ; ,. 

 J. B. Wilbur, \ "^• 

 J. Hutchinson, 

 B. Billings, 

 S. G. Sears, 

 Jno. Lewis. 

 Mrs. E. R. Perry, ] 

 Robert Evans, 

 R. O. Mi hen, 

 J. Wykoff, 

 Hiram Shays, 

 J.N. Mead, 



B. Farr, 

 Sam'l E. Norto 



C. C. Slocum, 



MARKET IIVTELLIGENCE. 



Rochester Produce Market— Wholesale. 



Valualile Wheat Farm for Sale. 



atue SITUATED in the town of Pittsford. seven miles cnft of 

 e^^ Rochester. The Farm contains 441 acres — including 20 

 -*m»^ acres of black ash, located 5 miles from the main farm.— 

 This farm has been, and can again be. divided into three farms- 

 having three houses (two frame, and one part log and part frame.) 

 and three good barns. 



The Main or Center farm contains 170 acres, and has a good 

 frame house, barn, carriage and corn houses, &c., all paiuted.— 

 The yards are enclosed with good picket fence, also paint?d. 



The South farm contains about 180 acres. The buildings con- 

 sist of a frame house and good barn. 



The North farm contains about 90 acres ;— house part log and 

 part frame ; good frame barn. 



This farm is only one mile east of Pittsford— and about three- 

 fourths of a milo from the rail-road and canal. The .soil is well 

 adapted to the raising of wheat— being gravel and sand, the most 

 of it originally oak openings, approximating to timber. There 

 are four good orchards of grafted fruits— two on the centre por- 

 tion, and one each on the north and south portiouH. Kach portion 

 has also a lot of good timber, suitable for building or sawing. 



The Irondequoit ("reek passes through the farms ; also, several 

 other streams. Near the bam on the centre farm, is a niver 

 failing watering place, from a living spring. Also, a good well in 

 the yard of th(^ name barn. 



The whole farm will be sold together, or divided, according to 

 the above divisions Terms— One fourth of the purchase money 

 will be required, and the balance made easy. 



Ai,9o— About 375 acres of timber land, (pine, chestnut, and oak.) 

 situated in the town of South Bristol, Ontario Co.— together with 

 a half or equal interest, of a good saw mill on the premises. This 

 property >ill be sold on liberal terms, or exchanged for good 

 Western Lands, or other property. 



Apply to (teo. Habt, Ksq . No. 7 Arcade. Rochester, or to the 

 subscriber on the premises. J. E. MARSH. 



Pittsford, Jan. 1, 1847. [l-lf] 



Wheat, ,$1 25 



Corn, 44 



Barley, 56 



Oats,... 30 



Flour, 5 75 



Beans, 62 



Apples, bush. 18 



Potatoes 37 



Clover Seed,. 5 00 



Timothy, 1 50 



Hay, ton, 10 OlJ 



Wood, cord,. 2 75 



Salt, bbl, 1 38 



Hams, lb,.... 7 

 Rochester, Jan. 23, 



Pork, bbl. mess 10 00 11 00 



1848. 



Tiew York Market. 



[By Magitetlc Telegraph. "l 



New York, Jan. 27.-7 P. M. 



Ashes.— Pots firm ; -.'nd occasionally $6 is given. The bulk of 

 the sales are $5.S7}<. Pearls are $7 and dull. 



Flour and Meal.— The rain of the morning prevented ope- 

 rations, and the transactions of the day have been quite mode- 

 rate, the trade buying moderate, and shippers appeared to be in 

 market only for parcels to lill up vessels. Sales reach 3500 bbls 

 $6 for Livingston, and ^6aG 12 for Western and Western New 

 York, and $6 18 for pure Genesee. In meal there is not much 

 doing. Market dull. Sales of Jersey at 3 12a3 18. Kye flour 

 at 4 12. 



Graln.— For good samples of wheat for milling there is fair in- 

 quiry. Market not firm. Sales 1,200 bu. Genesee at 1 25 for 

 the east, and 1000 do. Long Island and New Jersey, 1 25al 26. 

 Corn dull. Shipping demand not active, .-^bout 10 or 12.000 bu. 

 sold at C5a66c for New Orleans. 6oaG8c for New Northern and 

 Jersey. Sale Rye at 90c. In barley nothing doing. Oats un- 

 settled , 48a50c. 



Provisions. —Market for pork less active, and quotations less 

 firm. 3 or 400 barrels have been sold nominally at $6a7, and 

 10 37 for old. and $7 87a$8. and $11 50 for new. In beef there is 

 some movement. 500 bbls^ sold at $837>2a8 87 for mess. $5 25a5 75 

 for prime. Sale 100 barrels Beef Hams at lOolO 25. Lard is in 

 fair inquiry. Butter steady, fair demand. Cheese heavy. 



Contents of this Number. 



Southern Agriculture and Customs 37 



Scientific Notices— Artesian Wells, Urine of Herbiferous Ani- 

 mals, Potato Disease, Atmosphere of the Moon, Carbon from 



the Lungs, Green and Dry Fodder. 3S 



Gleanings from Foreign Journals— Trotting, Potatoes, Drain- 

 ing, Living Threshing Machine, .Adulterating Food, Thick 



and Thin Sowing, -A.rtiticial Silk, 39 



Grasses; Manuring and Stimulating Seeds, 40 



Natural Science; Shrinking of Pork— Lunar Influence 41 



Meteorological Observations; Destruction of the Wire- Worm, 42 



Quantity of Seed to an acre— Experiment, 43 



Ashes on Corn; Cobs as Fuel; Sugar Beet, 44 



Smut in Wheat; the Orange Carrot; -intidote to Poisons; 

 Seneca Co Ag. Society; Improvement in Fence-making,. .. 45 



Pigeon Weed, or Red Root, 4<j 



Saxon Sheep 48 



Winter Management of Sheep, 49 



Hereford Cattle. 50 



Broods of Swine, 51 



State Ag. Societj-- Premiums; Short Crops; Cooking Food for 



Cattle 52 



Editor's Table— To Correspondeiits, and various items 5."? 



Preventin;,' the Potato Rot ; Watering Cattle; FaU and Win- 

 ter Plowing; Keeping Farm .\ccounts ; Mental Improve- 

 ment of Farmers ; Useful Table; Composition for Shoes; 



Improved Horse Collar 54 



Wheat Crop of Michigan; Winter-killed Wheat ; Largo yield 

 of Corn; Irrigation; Improve Wet Lands; Fat Anim'als and 

 Large Crops; Rules for Milkmg: iVIaple Sugar ; Founder in 

 Horses; Iron Fences. S-'i 



HORTICULTUK.VL DEPARTMENT. 



Pomological Rules ; Oiswego Bcurre, or Reid's Seedling Pear, 5C 

 Report of Fruit Committee of State Agricultural Society ; 



Transactions of .Mass. Hort. Society, 57 



New England -A-pplos ; The Early Tillotson Peach 58 



Diseases of Plants— Mildew ; Flowers from Mexico, 69 



Buds, their Origin and Office 60 



The Potre Pear; Colored edition of Downing's Fruit and 



Fruit Trees; Answers to Cori-espondcnts. 61 



I.AUIKS' DF.PAKTMENT. 



Turning Over a New Lent- Or, How to get a Husband 62 



Domestic Economy— Buckwheat Flour 62 



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